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Amarinder Singh meets Home Minister Amit Shah at his house in Delhi. (File)
New Delhi/ Chandigarh:
Punjab’s former Chief Minister and Congress veteran Amarinder Singh met Union Home Minister Amit Shah, amid speculation about his joining the BJP. Captain Amarinder Singh recently stepped down from the top post in Punjab. Mr Singh said that during the meeting he discussed the contentious farm laws, urging Home Minister Amit Shah to repeal the laws and guarantee MSP.
On Tuesday, Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned as Punjab Congress chief, delivering a big shock to the Gandhis, who may have hoped that changing Chief Ministers would help end the turmoil in the state before elections early next year.
In a video message tweeted on Wednesday morning, Mr Sidhu said that he will not compromise on ethics and would “fight for truth until my last breath.”
“My fight is issue-based and I have stood by it for a long time. I cannot compromise with my ethics, my moral authority. What I witness is a compromise with issues, agenda in Punjab. I cannot misguide the high command nor can I let them be misguided,” Mr Sidhu said in Punjabi.
In his resignation letter to Sonia Gandhi, the cricketer-turned-politician wrote, “The collapse of a man’s character stems from the compromise corner. I can never compromise on Punjab’s future and the agenda for the welfare of Punjab. Therefore, I hereby resign as the President of Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee. I will continue to serve the Congress.”
Here are the LIVE updates on Punjab Congress Crisis:
Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma on Thursday expressed disgust over party workers’ protest outside Kapil Sibal’s house after he raised questions over the functioning of the Congress in wake of the turmoil in the party’s Punjab Unit.
Mr Sharma, who along with Mr Sibal is among the “Group of 23” which had last year sought an organisational overhaul in the party, said intolerance and violence is alien to the Congress values and culture. He asked All India Congress Committee chief Sonia Gandhi to take strong action against those involved.
“Shocked and disgusted to hear the news of attack and hooliganism at Kapil Sibal’s house. This deplorable action brings disrepute to the party and needs to be strongly condemned,” Mr Sharma said in a series of tweets. He asserted that the Congress has a history of upholding freedom of expression.
Hours after raising questions over the functioning of Congress, Mr Sibal on Wednesday came under attack from several quarters with party workers also protesting outside his house in . He has demanded that an immediate meeting of the Congress Working Committee be convened and wondered who in the party was taking decisions in the absence of a full-time president.
“Arrogance Of Power”: What Congress Said On Captain-Amit Shah Meeting
The Congress lashed out at Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday evening shortly after his meeting with former Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh that came as the biggest political development of the day. Amit Shah, the party said, is furious that a Dalit has been chosen as Chief Minister and is keen on revenge on Punjab. Of Mr Singh — who stepped down from the post of Punjab Chief Minister earlier this month after a long and bitter feud with a section of his MLAs — nothing overt was said.
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